Last name: Toma. Recorded in over two hundred spelling forms ranging from the British Tomas and Thomas, the Italian Tommasi and Toma, the German Thom, Thomas, Thoma, Thumm, and Thome, the Slavonic Tomaschek, the Russian Fominov, the Belorussian Tomich and Khomich. the Swedish Thomasson, and many, many, others, the origin is Aramaic.
FACS is an abbreviation for a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. This is a very prestigious honor only bestowed upon surgeons after completing stringent residency requirements.
The word facsimile comes from the Latin words âfacâ (make it, or made) and âsimileâ (similar, alike); therefore its original meaning is âmade alikeâ. Today the word facsimile is used for high quality reproductions of illuminated manuscripts, all the way down to xerox copies of documents.